Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of Syria. The parliamentary speaker has announced that Assad garnered 95.1 percent of the votes cast, trouncing two virtually unknown challengers. Standing against him were former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmud Merhi. In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Assad won 88 …

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